Election 2011

Results in St. Clement:

Pinel              1313
Baudains         979
Cabeldu          712
Bree                710
DuPre              679
Ward               315

First of all, I thank all those who showed confidence in me by voting for me. I am looking forward to starting on the job of sorting out the mess that is currently our government. Naturally, I shall represent all parishioners to the best of my ability. A big thank you too to my helpers. In previous campaigns I have used a team of ten or so plus a campaign manager. This time I managed the whole campaign myself, including applying labels to and delivering almost all my manifestoes personally. Nevertheless, I had a couple of friends assist with some deliveries at Le Marais and along parts of the Inner Road – and to stand with me outside the polling station. Again, thank you.
Sadly, there was a bit of skullduggery in this campaign – one gets used to a handful of posters being ripped down by hooligans, and I had half a dozen to replace as a result. However, a mystery surrounds the disappearance immediately before polling of my two medium-sized posters on lamposts a 100yds or so away from the Parish Hall.
No posters are allowed to be visible from the polling station and mine weren’t. It appears, however, that the parish driver sent out to remove those that were got a little carried away and took down more than was necessary. Ok, so a genuine mistake, but what is unclear is what happened to mine – I asked the Returning Officer to sort this out and he did – the parish foreman was asked to replace the missing posters. Unfortunately, my two ‘main’ ones were nowhere to be found. The foreman claimed not to have seen them (I believe him) yet a supporter saw his truck by my posters earlier that morning. They were not torn down – vandals usually leave them nearby and cable ties are left on the pole. These were cut down and are missing. Very strange. I had to ask my son to replace the missing poster with the only spare I had left – a huge 4ft x 4ft one. So if you’re wondering why I had such a large poster, no, it wasn’t intended, it was to resolve a problem which does seem a little curious.
Now to strangle a few politicians in the States ….

Assessment of results.

Well, now the dust has settled, what have we got? The public wanted change, and there’s several new members now, but will that actually mean change?
I don’t think so, although I shall be trying hard and believe I have a chance. Wouldn’t have stood for election otherwise. The reason I made the previous comment, is because despite warning about ‘establishment’ plants putting themselves forward as ‘independent candidates’, several have been voted in. At least half a dozen I reckon.

Wait and see how many end up as Assistant Ministers – that’s a good guide.
Then there’s Philip Bailhache. I was hoping he wouldn’t get in. He may have a fine brain, but why did he stand for election? I believe as Bailiff he was the main conduit between us and the UK whereby whatever the UK government wanted here (eg ministerial government) he made sure it happened. He also supports multiculturalism – which has caused so much strife elsewhere – and an international arts gallery we neither need nor can afford. I believe (and hope I’m wrong – but you heard it here first) that his main purpose is to bolster the Council of Ministers. He already wants less States members and less Questions asked – making it clear he wants to remove what little accountability exists with regard to ministers’ actions. Fewer members = less opposition, and fewer questions = less accountability. After all, the reason there’s so many questions is because the ministers behave the way they do. If everything was transparent and above board, there’d be no need for questions at all!
If he gets to be Chief Minister (which I believe was the plan all along) then it will be jobs for the boys and bugger the public. I sincerely hope a credible alternative (no, not Ozouf) comes forward.

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